Hey everyone, I just want to take a second to invite you to join me this year at Restore

a Faith Matters Gathering happening October 13th and 14th.

It's going to be at the Amount and America Expo Center in Sandy and it promises to be

an exceptional conference.

I attended last fall and found it to be a remarkably inspiring, hopeful two days of listening

to really well-prepared, thoughtful talks as well as inspiring music and really feeling

a deep connection with my other Latter-day Saint brothers and sisters around me in our

shared desire to speak to the best in our faith and to speak to one another and find a sense

of connection.

I'm also going to be one of the people speaking.

I'll be speaking a bit about eros energy and its connection to spirituality and to the

light of Christ and so I hope to see you all there.

Hey everybody, this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters.

When therapists Bonnie Young was a teen, the subject of sexuality was for her drenched

in fear and many of us can probably relate.

For many Latter-day Saints growing up in a sexually conservative culture and with a strict

law of chastity, for all of the goods those things can bring, feelings of anxiety, fear,

and shame around sexuality may be more of the rule rather than the exception.

Bonnie's on a mission to change that and we think that she's done really important work

to do so with her new book Sex Educated, letters from a Latter-day Saint Therapist to

her younger self.

As the title implies, the book is structured around a series of letters from Bonnie to herself

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